{"id":293,"date":"2008-01-12T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.80.208.152\/affiliateprogramadvice\/?p=293"},"modified":"2009-11-26T01:14:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T06:14:37","slug":"affiliation-termination-u-r-a-poor-affiliate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/12\/affiliation-termination-u-r-a-poor-affiliate\/","title":{"rendered":"Affiliation Termination, U R A POOR AFFILIATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">I received this lovely email from a US affiliate program management agency who manage three top fashion brands in the US. Im not going to name and shame as could be, only god knows how, there are some affiliates who maybe doing well through this program, although I have my doubts.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\">\u201cDear Affiliate, our client has asked us to tidy up their affiliate program and remove affiliates\u2019 who are poor performers. We have terminated your affiliation, please remove all links. We wish you luck and thank you for partnering with us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cDear Affiliate <span style=\"color: #6633ff\"><strong>(we have no clue who you are),<\/strong><\/span> our client <span style=\"color: #6633ff\"><strong>(pass the buck)<\/strong><\/span> has asked us to tidy up their affiliate program <span style=\"color: #6633ff\"><strong>(Justification)<\/strong><\/span> and remove affiliates <span style=\"color: #6633ff\"><strong>(Client is clueless)\u2019<\/strong><\/span> who are poor performers <strong><span style=\"color: #6633ff\">(Cover all bases by not giving a definition of what constitutes a poor performer).<\/span><\/strong> We have terminated your affiliation (<span style=\"color: #6633ff\"><strong>Agency being assertive),<\/strong><\/span> please remove all links <span style=\"color: #6633ff\"><strong>(Polite way of saying if you generate any more commissions, you won\u2019t get paid).<\/strong><\/span> We wish you luck and thank you for partnering with us <span style=\"color: #6633ff\"><strong>(We couldn\u2019t give a monkeys if you spontaneously combusted)<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My translation<\/strong><br \/>\nDear Affiliate, we have taken the decision to terminate your partnership with us due to poor performance. Even though you signed up only a week a go and our data feeds are out of date (product url goes to page that cant be found and broken images) and wont be fixed until May 2008 has been like this since October 2007. We don\u2019t allow any affiliate to redirect links to specific products, so all you really have is a few banners (with domain name extension displayed) linking directly to a flash home page that takes 4.2 seconds to load and is skew in firefox.<\/p>\n<p>Yes I hang my head in shame, I am a very poor affiliate indeed.<\/p>\n<form style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chainreaction-community.net\/?jackie_brown\">Jackie Brown movie full<\/a><\/form>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received this lovely email from a US affiliate program management agency who manage three top fashion brands in the US. Im not going to name and shame as could be, only god knows how, there are some affiliates who maybe doing well through this program, although I have my doubts.\u201cDear Affiliate, our client has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}